Model Railroad Club sets 10th anniversary celebration Oct. 1

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September 26, 2011

Anonymous Submitted The Crossville Chronicle Mon Sep 26, 2011, 05:00 PM CDT

CROSSVILLE — Ten years ago Tansi resident Mike Ferry decided Crossville needed a model railroad club. Ferry and a handful of fellow hobbyists started meeting at the Crossville Depot to hold modeling classes and discuss model railroading.

After a few years, the club started seeking a permanent home where they could start installing some permanent club layouts. That search ended with a large storefront at the Crossville Outlet Mall.

The space of nearly 5,000 square feet allowed the growing organization to allow its members to build operating displays for their various model scales.

The club today has operating layouts for G, O, HO, N and Z scales, one of the few such displays in the country to show all popular model railroad scales. The club, believed to be the largest free model railroad displays in the East, draws more than 30,000 visitors a year. The club, in the meantime, has grown to some 80 members, many of them retirees from other parts of the country.

The Crossville Model Railroad Club is celebrating 10 years of existence with an anniversary event Oct. 1 at the mall. Scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., there will be a live radio broadcast, hourly prize drawings and Thomas The Tank Engine videos, an operating Thomas railroad display and “Dr. Fix-It” to perform minor repairs and tune up your trains. Free refreshments will be served and all model displays will be operating.

As always, there is no admission charge for the event. The CMRRC display is in the north end of the mall, next to Subway.

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